Representing non-weakly compact operators

Publication date 26 February 1996

Abstract: For each

S i n L (E)

(with

E

a Banach space) the operator

R (S) i n L (E^{* *} / E)

is defined by

R (S) (x^{* *} + E) = S^{* *} x^{* *} + E

quad (

x^{* *} i n E^{* *}

). We study mapping properties of the correspondence

S o R (S),

which provides a representation

R

of the weak Calkin algebra

L (E) / W (E)

(here

W (E)

denotes the weakly compact operators on

E

). Our results display strongly varying behaviour of

R .

For instance, there are no non--zero compact operators in Im

(R)

in the case of

L^{1}

and

C (0, 1),

but

R (L (E) / W (E))

identifies isometrically with the class of lattice regular operators on

e l l^{2}

for

E = e l l^{2} (J)

(here

J

is the James' space). Accordingly, there is an operator

T i n L (e l l^{2} (J))

such that

R (T)

is invertible but

T

fails to be invertible modulo

W (e l l^{2} (J)) .

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